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Conditions Right for Complex Life May Have Come, Gone in Earth's Distant Past
January 17, 2017
SEATTLE, Jan. 17 -- The University of Washington issued the following news release:

Conditions suitable to support complex life may have developed in Earth's oceans -- and then faded -- more than a billion years before life truly took hold, a new University of Washington-led study has found.

The findings, based on using the element selenium as a tool to measure oxygen in the distant past, may also benefit the search for signs of life beyond Earth.

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